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your phone and Chromebook. Welcome to Gabbfest reads. I'm David Plott's one of the hosts of Slate's political

Gabfest. In 1977 when I was a first grader in DC Public Schools, Lafayette Elementary, the

city was gripped for several days by an extraordinary event and even today 46 years later, yeah

46 years later, the feeling of those days remains powerfully in my

memory so powerfully I literally think about it every time I drive up 16th

street and now Shahan Mufte has written an absolutely brilliant and mesmerizing

and page-turning account of an event that you probably never heard of, but which was massively

important in shaping America's relationship to Islam and to terrorism.

Mufte's book, American Kollif, chronicles the 1977 siege of Washington, D.C.

when a small Muslim group based in D.C. based out of a house on 16th Street took more than 150 hostages in three buildings, killed a young Howard

University journalist, nearly killed Marion Barry, then a city council member,

soon to be mayor, and brought the city to a standstill.

The Hanafi Muslim takeover of the Benet Brith, the National Islamic Center, and the district

building was, and I think remains the largest hostage taking ever on American soil.

Jahan Mufe, you are chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of Richmond.

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